David Graeber has a memorable gloss on the transition to state-backed coinage (in "Debt: The First 5000 Years") which he acknowledges is too simple, but useful: to provision his army efficiently, the sovereign hands out coins to soldiers, demands that citizens pay taxes in those coins only, and waits for entrepreneurs to start providing goods and services to the soldiers in order to get the coins.
Mr. Strache, a former dental technician, has called for a halt to immigration and a reclamation of some of the sovereign powers handed over to the European Union.
Having achieved a rethink on the NHS changes, the Lib Dems' Lady Williams is said to be "in a state" over European legislation heading to the Lords – which would require a referendum if any further sovereign powers are handed to Brussels – and is keen to slow that down too.
The Dean of Westminster pours consecrated oil from an eagle-shaped ampulla into a spoon with which the Archbishop of Canterbury anoints the Sovereign on the hands, head, and heart.
These days, Russian thinking divides the world into America and its docile friends on one hand, and "sovereign" countries, like China, India and South Africa on the other.
The continuing guerrilla war is complicating efforts to hand over sovereign power to the Iraqis by June 30, starting with caucuses to select a transitional national assembly that would then write a constitution calling for general elections in 2005.
On the other hand, the sovereign money reform will entail clear costs for the Swiss economy and will create potential risks and instability.
Nevertheless, what was involved was a significant military assault on the territory of a sovereign state on the one hand, and on the other hand, the real possibility of nuclear weapons in the hands of Saddam Hussein.
Firstly the Arctic is in the hands of sovereign states such as Greenland (still partly controlled by Denmark) and Russia, which do not want outside interference in their "national" affairs.
After Szczerbiec, a bishop handed the sovereign the Grunwald Swords symbolizing the monarch's reign over the two constituent nations of the Commonwealth.
